Nichole Moravec is a white nonbinary person from Faribault, Minnesota. They talk about growing up and their family relationships. At the time of the interview, they were one of the co-presidents of Full Spectrum Winona State’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance as well as on the council of KEAP, and they describe how attending the queer college confe...
Creator:
Moravec, Nichole
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-03-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Selena Meza is a Mexican-American trans femme from Nekoosa, Wisconsin. In this oral history interview, she discusses her upbringing in rural Wisconsin, her college experience and career, and her thoughts on feminist and trans politics. Specifically, Meza tells of her interest in the arts and work as an illustrator at a design firm, her experienc...
Creator:
Meza, Selena
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-11-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Katie Spencer is a white cisgender woman who grew up in Farmington, Missouri. At the time of this oral history, Spencer was living in Minnesota and working at the University of Minnesota's Program in Human Sexuality. In this oral history, Spencer speaks at length about her childhood, her time in college, and her experiences with femininity. Spen...
Creator:
Spencer, Dr. Katie
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-02-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Lee Levingston Perine is a Black genderqueer person from St. Louis, Missouri. They talk about their early life, college, and grad school, as well as having a very supportive family. They talk at length about masculinity and race, and the difference between their community in DC and in Minneapolis. They talk about relationship dynamics, especiall...
Creator:
Perine, Lee Livingston
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-12-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Ani Koch is a white genderqueer person from Dubuque, Iowa. They talk about their experiences at school growing up, coming to better understand their gender, and their experience with and thoughts on drag. They share what trans people have inspired them, and what it is like to be perceived by some people as a white man. They discuss their family ...
Creator:
Koch, Ani
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-01-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
James Schwartz is a white trans man from Monticello, Minnesota. He discusses growing up in a conservative town, and his relationships with his family. He talks about his trans identity, and the impact growing up with a queer grandmother who was active in the LGBT community. He gives his thoughts on the Program in Human Sexuality, and talks about...
Creator:
Schwartz, James
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-06-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Lou Weaver is a white trans man. At the time of the interview Weaver was working for Equality Texas. He discusses his childhood, his experience doing drag, and finding a community in Houston. He explains that how his white privilege and trans masculinity privilege manifest in different situations. He discusses training police officers on trans i...
Creator:
Weaver, Lou
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Gavin Rouille is a white queer male from Burlington, Vermont. He talks about his art and how his artmaking process has evolved over time. He also discusses how his relationships have changed since his transition.
Creator:
Rouille, Gavin
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-10-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
This video features an interview with two people who are good friends––June Taylor and Isabelle Wedin. June Taylor is a white trans woman from Winston-Salem North Carolina, and Isabelle Wedin is a white woman from Long Island. They both discuss their childhoods, the realizations that they were transgender, and how their wives supported them with...
Creator:
Taylor, June
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-10-31
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Roxanne Anderson is a Black gender non-conforming masculine of center person. At the time of this interview, they were the Director of Trans & Racial Justice at the organization OutFront Minnesota. This is the first of two interviews the Tretter Collection holds with Roxanne Anderson. In this oral history, they speak at length about their involv...
Creator:
Anderson, Roxanne (Narrator)
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-07-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Tiq Milan is a Black trans man who grew up in Buffalo, New York. At the time of this interview, Milan was working as a writer based out of New York. In this oral history he talks about growing up in Buffalo during the 1980s, Black families and support networks, and (in his own words) organic masculinity. Milan also touches upon his experiences p...
Creator:
Milan, Tiq
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-11-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Ty Yule is a white trans man. In life, Yule has spent time in the Midwest (in Iowa and Minnesota) and in California (in Apple Valley and San Francisco). In this interview, Yule touches upon topics such as passing and adversity, coalition building, gay marriage, and assimilation. He also shares his experiences with queer organizing and activism i...
Creator:
Yule, Ty
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-08-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Carter Thurmond is a white trans dyke from Louisiana. At the time of this oral history, Thurmond was a student living in the Twin Cities. In this oral history, Thurmond touches upon their childhood, community building, coming out to family, their gender and sexual evolution, their relationship experiences, combating heteronormativity, and gender...
Creator:
Thurmond, Carter
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-08-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
finn schneider is a white genderqueer person who grew up in Michigan. At the time of this interview, schneider was a student in graduate school. In this oral history, scheider speaks at length about gender and contextuality, fluidity, working in higher education, their family relationships, and their involvement in an educational organization ca...
Creator:
schneider, finn
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-08-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Rachel Schroeder is white trans woman from Burnsville, Minnesota. She discusses how her desire and her decision to transition impacted her relationships, and the importance of being correctly gendered. She talks about trans visibility, including Caitlyn Jenner, and how having a trans community proved vital to support her during her transition.
Creator:
Schroeder, Rachel
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-02-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Ben Singer is a white trans guy from Illinois. He talks about how rural identity and class shaped his idea of gender, and his research on transgender identity. He talks about his experience in the lesbian community during the 1980s, his journey to activism, and his work in trans healthcare activism. He discusses the Philadelphia Trans Healthcare...
Creator:
Singer, Ben
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-11-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Tamlyn Murray is a white gender nonconforming female from Centerville, Minnesota. She talks about coming out, and her interactions with healthcare. She discusses relationships, and the issues within the trans community, such as racism, trans misogyny, and internalized transphobia.
Creator:
Murray, Tamlyn
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-12-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Kye Allums is a Black queer fluid trans person from Minnesota who goes by he and they. In this oral history, Allums speaks at length about playing Division I basketball for George Washington University. He talks about navigating his changing understandings of masculinity, femininity and gender fluidity; and his national and his local advocacy work.
Creator:
Allums, Kye
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-09-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
T. Aaron Hans is a white butch transmasculine person who grew up in Germany and the United States and uses he and ze. At the time of this oral history, Hans was working as at Hamline University. In this oral history ze discusses hir early understandings of gender identity at a young age, being heavily bullied in school; hir experience with trans...
Creator:
Hans, T. Aaron
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-02-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Maxwell Poessnecker is a white trans masculine person raised in Nebraska who goes by he and sometimes they. At the time of this interview, Poessnecker was working as the Associate Director of Student Life and Director of LGBTQ Services at Century College. In this oral history, Poessnecker speaks at length about masculinity, his family relationsh...
Creator:
Poessnecker, Maxwell
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-07-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.